Milton Police Department

Close cooperation with residents is how the Milton Police Department frames its job in this Norfolk County town south of Boston, Massachusetts, pledging to keep Milton safe and welcoming and to treat everyone it meets with fairness, dignity and respect. Department leadership emphasizes progressive policing, community engagement and modern technology, and promises to keep adapting as laws, trends and cultural perspectives change. Its organization reflects that approach. Alongside uniformed patrol and a detective lieutenant who oversees investigations, the department employs a mental health clinician who helps officers respond to people in crisis and a civilian domestic violence advocate who supports victims. A court prosecutor presents the department's cases, and school resource officers are assigned to Milton schools. Community services and elder affairs staff work with older residents and run outreach programs, while a records manager oversees reports and public records requests, which Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 66, § 10, gives the department 10 business days to answer. Residents can also pass along information through a dedicated crime tip line, and the department counts community partnerships as its key resource for keeping the town safe.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 2023), Milton CDP, MA has an estimated population of 28,481.